Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the extent of teacher shortages in Cambridgeshire.

At a national level, we are retaining and recruiting the teachers we need. We recognise that the strengthening labour market and growth in pupil numbers have made recruiting or retaining staff more challenging for schools in certain circumstances and locations. We have undertaken research to understand the issues underpinning these differences and are now commissioning labour market analysis in a selection of more localised areas of the country to improve our understanding of supply problems in these areas.